Britain would vote to leave the European Union if a referendum were held
today, a poll for The Times suggests.

Forty per cent of voters would leave, 37 per cent would stay and 23 per cent
do not know how they would vote, according to the Populus survey. That
translates into a 53-47 vote in favour of leaving after taking into account
people’s likelihood to vote and stripping the “don’t knows” from the
figures.

The finding shows the scale of David Cameron’s gamble in promising to put
Britain’s EU membership to the vote within five years.